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SOUSA, Vítor de. The film "The Golden Cage": Reflections on the massive return of Portuguese emigration and the 'portugalidade’ of an (increasingly less) golden cage. OBS* [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.3, pp.39-74. ISSN 1646-5954.

The story of a couple of Portuguese migrants in France hit in the summer of 2013, the record ratings in theaters. The film "The Golden Cage" by Ruben Alves, recovered the theme of Portuguese emigration, at a time when this reached the boom recorded in the 1960s. Filmmaker refers to ‘portugalidade’ as an alleged 'belonging to Portugal', using his own route, which named as a cliché, and uses multiple stereotypes in a humorous way by which some shame that the children of immigrants feel toward their parents , as well as contrasts with the society they live in is shown. The great fiction in the film is the anticipation of the return to the country of origin, fulfilling the dream of subverting the logic: in the film, there are not the parents that returns back, but the children, who apparently aren’t identified with the country of progenitors. The film sparked the debate about emigration, taking advantage of the economic crisis to reflect on his return in force as well as the profiles of new migrants. Did the Portuguese in the ‘diaspora’ still rekindle the 'Lusitanian' flame (Gonçalves, 2009)? And is the sharing of the name ‘Portugal’ enough just to highlight an alleged national identity (Sobral, 2012)?

Keywords : Emigration; National Identity; 'portugalidade'.

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